Conflict in Syria intensifies

August 28, 2013

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A crowd waits for the arrival of the bodies of three Kurdish fighters from the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG) for burial on August 27, 2013 in a cemetery in the Syrian-Kurdish town of Derik, following their killing in an attack on their checkpoint by militants from the radical Islamist group Jabhat Al-Nusra near the town, also known in Arabic as al-Malikiyah, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on the border with Turkey and Iraq. A new wave of Syrians began pouring into northern Iraq in mid-August, seeking refuge from fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamist rebels, as well as from an economy in tatters. Syria's Kurds, who number over two million and are concentrated in the north and northeast of the country.

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A crowd waits for the arrival of the bodies of three Kurdish fighters from the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG) for burial on August 27, 2013 in a cemetery in the Syrian-Kurdish town of Derik, following their killing in an attack on their checkpoint by militants from the radical Islamist group Jabhat Al-Nusra near the town, also known in Arabic as al-Malikiyah, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on the border with Turkey and Iraq. A new wave of Syrians began pouring into northern Iraq in mid-August, seeking refuge from fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamist rebels, as well as from an economy in tatters. Syria's Kurds, who number over two million and are concentrated in the north and northeast of the country.